Did you know the popes name?

[AndyAudi]

In my life time if you asked me to name the popes I’d get

John Paul II
Benedict
Frances

But was totally unaware of the latest one, or that he was even American until the current news stories. He’s been in role a year, does he have a bad publicist or is this just me that’s missed it?

I’m not a religious man, but the pope’s always been an icon of sorts

[CanAm]

AndyAudi said:

In my life time if you asked me to name the popes I d get

John Paul II
Benedict
Frances

But was totally unaware of the latest one, or that he was even American until the current news stories. He s been in role a year, does he have a bad publicist or is this just me that s missed it?

I m not a religious man, but the pope s always been an icon of sorts

Before John Paul II, there was of course the sadly very short reign of John Paul (I)

Edited by CanAm on Tuesday 14th April 07:42

[AndyAudi]

CanAm said:

Before John Paul II, there was of course the sadly very short reign of John Pail (I)

I hadn’t actually realised that was an “of course” & the John Paul’s were consecutive popes, eg I knew they reused names & there’d been loads of Benedict’s .

[vikingaero]

Leo Sayer.

[NH-0]

I think I saw him in the woods...

[Byker28i]

Pope Leo (XIV) of course, first pope born in the US

[languagetimothy]

NH-0 said:

I think I saw him in the woods...

I hope you didnt step in anything



John Paul George and ringo - in my life

[Essel]

I think he should have kept his own name.

Pope Bob sounds much better.

[Furbo]

His real name is actually Bob. True story.

[Paul Dishman]

Popes I remember

John XXIII
Paul VI
John Paul I
John Paul II
Benedict XVI
Francis
Leo XIV

[P-Jay]

AndyAudi said:

In my life time if you asked me to name the popes I d get

John Paul II
Benedict
Frances

But was totally unaware of the latest one, or that he was even American until the current news stories. He s been in role a year, does he have a bad publicist or is this just me that s missed it?

I m not a religious man, but the pope s always been an icon of sorts

He's if anything one of the more outspoken Pope's, generally at odds with Trump and the rest of his ilk, cares about the poor the sick, needy etc as you'd expect. Very anti-war "there is no Holy war, only Holy Peace" Called for Bishops to use firm, transparent action to address sexual abuse cases and for the Church to be made "restless by history" acknowledging it's past failings.

Honestly, I think his anti-Trump stance keeps him at odds with a lot of the big media places and the moderate ones don't always play well with the Catholic Church.

Trump is currently sharing images of himself as Jesus (no, really) which is making the press on both sides for obvious reasons.

[crofty1984]

I like this pope and Francis. They both seem to be good eggs.

[MDMA .]

Eva Pope was in my mates class at school.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

vikingaero said:

Leo Sayer.

Leo Prayer.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

crofty1984 said:

I like this pope and Francis. They both seem to be good eggs.

Who's you favourite Mafia boss?

[Panamax]

So who's Papa Emeritus IV?

[Skyedriver]

Furbo said:

His real name is actually Bob. True story.

Strange name for a Pope.

[PauloHendo]

His middle name is Francis, why didn't he just run with that if he didn't want to be Pope Rab?

[vetrof]

Jim

[Megaflow]

AndyAudi said:

In my life time if you asked me to name the popes I d get

John Paul II
Benedict
Frances

But was totally unaware of the latest one, or that he was even American until the current news stories. He s been in role a year, does he have a bad publicist or is this just me that s missed it?

I m not a religious man, but the pope s always been an icon of sorts

If you had asked me to name a pope, I might have got Benedict, reading this thread, it feels familiar. Others, not a chance.